Improvement in cans for cooling milk during transportation



G. W. FLUKE. Cans for Cooling Milk During Transportation. N0.l 52,284. I Patentedlune23,1874.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE TV. FLUKE, OF MOUNT PLEASANT, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CANS FOR COOLING MILK DURING TRANSPORTATION.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,284, dated June 23, 1874; application filed June 13, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. FLUKE, of

' Mount Pleasant, in the county of Henry and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Gan for Cooling Milk during Trans-- portation, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a sectional side elevai ion of my improved milk-can, partly in section of the line 0 c of Fig. 2; and Fig. 2, a horizontal section of the same on the line 00 :10, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of my improvement in cans for cooling milk during transportation is to utilize the cooling capacity of the ice or water which was allowed to run off in the milk-can improvements patented to me heretofore under dates of March 3 and May 19, 1874, and

' numbered 148,114 and 151,016, respectively.

My invention consists of an ice-water receptacle or channel placed circumferentially around the milk-can, and below and in connection with the bottom of the ice chamber or receptacle at the side of the can, for conducting the ice-water around the lower part of the can, and discharge by an exit perforation at the upper part and near the end or partition of the waterchamber.

In the drawing, A represents a milk can of suitable size and construction, provided with ice chamber or receptacle B, which is attached to the side of the can, and lined suitably at the outer wall and bottom with wood or other non-conductor of heat. The false-bottom linin g C is inclined to keep the ice in position on the wall of the can, and conducts the water, by edge recesses a, to a perforation, b, of the true bottom of ice-chamber B. Perforation 11 connects the ice-chamber B with an ice-water conducting channel or receptacle, D, which is formed by soldering or otherwise attaching a sheet-metal strip of oval, rectangular, or other shape around the circumference of the lower part of can below the bottom of the ice-chainber. The channel is closed at one end by sol dering the strip vertically to the can, so that an end partition, 4, is formed, which compels the melted ice-water to pass from the icechamber continually around the full circumference of the can until it issues through an exit perforation, c, at the upper edge of channel D at the opposite side of the dividing end or partition d. In this manner the full coolin g capacity of the ice-water is utilized. without increasing to any large degree the bulk or cost of the cans. A faucet may be also applied to the water-conducting attachment for drawing the water off after use. This waterconductin g attachment may be soldered aroun d a faucet, said faucet to be used to draw milk from the can.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as newand desire to secure by Letters Pat-- ent The combination, with milk-can A and icereceptacle B, provided with bottom perforation I), of an ice-water-conducting channel or receptacle, 1), extending around the can below the ice-chamber, and having dividing end partirion d and exit perforation e, substantially as set forth and described.

GEORGE W. FLUKE.

Witnesses GEO. J. RUSK, GEORGE H. SMITH. 

